A PROMISING SITUATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 89, 11 October 1941, Page 13

A PROMISING SITUATION

DECIDE ON YOUR SUMMER SUIT

For the country suit there are up-to-date styles in gun club and glen checks, while for the classic town tailor-made, there are worsteds and saxonies in bright-coloured effects of stripes, checks, and plain. All these can be ; found in 100 per cent, wool of a light weight most suitable for present wear IN CLASSIC STYLE. This season tailors will be busier than ever making the classic type of suit in which a .woman looks her soignee best: These suits will be very trim and straight, and a complete' change from the "dressmaker" suits of the last few seasons. Most popular of the trends which cover the classic traditions of tailoring are those London style suits with

their low double-breasted cross-over jackets and straight pleated skirts. You see such a one in the sketch. It is of "tattle-tale" grey Cannel with wonderful broad shoulders, low-waisted fastening, and three, box pleats in the skirt.

Flannel of all types and patterns is a favourite fabric for summer tailor-, mades, and suits for sports wear come in beautiful new shades arid unconventional styling. New, amusing cuts and details appear on skirts and jackets Kilted skirts pleated all round appear in conjunction with cardigan-jackets Skirts with graduated pleats on 4 the bias give a swinging-beauty-in-action line and are often linked with plaid jackets, also cut on the bias. The longer jacket line is as apparent in tailored costumes of a sporty nature as it is on those for city wear. But with a difference. For sp6rts costumes, the longer line is introduced with skirted jackets, cut almost like a riding coat, with one button at the waist, another above it.

Blouses that go with these smart suits are important because they are

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As far as can be seen at this stage of the season, the suit situation for summer promises to be a very-satisfactory one. Lovely woollens and tweeds from the looms of the United Kingdom, as well as local factories, show a diversity of patterns and weaves. In spite of wartime difficulties, it will be found that the .ranges of designs are as varied and extensive as ever.

more revealed in the front opening of the jacket than they have been for some time. With striped flannel suits it is new to wear striped silk shirts. Dark blouses spotted in white are '

jaunty accompaiments for light suits. And again, as in the days of the last war, it is practical to have a drawer tull of starched "middy" blouses so that always you have the wherewithal to give your tailormade costume a crisp-as-celery look. I . M.R.